Dave

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See also: dave, davė, davę, dávě, and davě

English

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Dave

  1. A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name.
    • 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 169, 170:
      David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely. - - - Worse, if your name is Dave, the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.
    • 2025 May 5, “Barstool Sports founder retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in antisemitic sign incident”, in Associated Press:
      Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he would send two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after they allegedly engaged in antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia, then later retracted that offer for at least one of them because he said the person was denying responsibility for what happened.
  2. A surname from Gujarati from Gujarati દવે (dave, (one who has studied) two Vedas).
  3. (very rare) A female given name.

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English Dave, diminutive of David.

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Dave (Badlit spelling ᜇᜒᜌ᜔ᜊ᜔)

  1. a male given name from English

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Dave, diminutive of David.

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Proper noun

Dave (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌ᜔ᜊ᜔)

  1. a male given name from English